This is the second time I’ve had the pleasure of photographing the sweet Taphorn family since moving here. If you missed my first post a while back, you can read it here but we actually moved to Hawaii at the exact same time as them and since have become super close friends. It’s crazy how much has changed in a full year since I took those first photos at Turtle Bay. Erika had her fourth baby this summer, a little girl named Selah, and we have only grown closer and more thankful for their family.

While we are both a lot busier than when we first moved here, we love the weeks when we get to see the Taphorns once or twice. We just celebrated Thanksgiving with them and a bunch of our other friends which was seriously the highlight of this season for me. And the next day we went to cut down a Christmas tree with them and I am just so grateful for the friends we have here. Getting to do life with them is the absolute best.

It really is so true that your friends become your family in Hawaii. I haven’t been home to Virginia in almost a full year which definitely is a bit sad but our lives are full of so much laughter and joy with our friends that it almost makes that easier.

This beach shoot was from back in July only a couple weeks after little Selah entered the world. She is absolute sunshine and the chunkiest little cutie pie ever! The fact that she is already over four months old is blowing my mind but I’m so glad we have these photos to remember her squishy newborn phase! Enjoy the post!

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